What is a Vending Machine? How many can I place? How do I check a player shop's stock on the map?

A Vending Machine is your own shop: you set the offers, other players buy from you while you're offline.

How many. Up to 3 machines per server. The limit counts machines you've placed on that server — on another server you start from zero again.

How to get one. Research the blueprint at the workbench, then craft it and place it on a building wall.

How it works. Create offers — what you sell and what you want in return. You can have up to 7 offers at once.

Stock and storage. The shop holds 15 storage slots for the goods buyers receive. An offer with no stock can't be bought. The storage also caps a single offer: you can't sell more of an item than fits in those 15 slots, so for items that don't stack the practical ceiling is 15 pieces per offer.

Your earnings go into a separate storage. If it fills up, your offers stop working until you empty it.

One at a time. Only one player can be inside a shop at a moment — including you. If someone is browsing yours, you'll see "Shop is busy" until they leave.

On the map. Tap any player shop icon to see what it sells and at what price. The marker hides itself when the shop is out of stock.

Protect it. If there's no Repair Cupboard covering the machine, any player can open its storage from the back and take your goods and your earnings. Place the machine inside your cupboard's zone — then only players authorized in that cupboard can reach it.